Walk For Hungry Set For This Month

RELIGION NEWS

The 1997 Boca/Delray CROP Walk for the Hungry, sponsored by Church World Service, will be on Feb. 23.

Money raised from the CROP Walk will be used to support hunger-fighting agencies locally and around the world.

The event will start and end at First United Methodist Church, 625 NE Mizner Blvd., in downtown Boca Raton.

Participants can tackle either the 1-mile walk or the 5-mile walk. For information, call Pat Williams at 561-395-6221, or Church World Service at 954-474-9007.

Vicar named in Lake Worth

The Most Rev. J. Keith Symons, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach, has appointed the Rev. Richard Schaefer as parochial vicar at St. Luke Parish in Lake Worth.

Schaefer, 55, is a native of Philadelphia. He received a bachelor's degree in humanities from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., and a master's degree in psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

Schaefer also attended classes at St. Charles Seminar in Overbrook, Pa., and worked on his doctorate in psychology and administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was ordained in June at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Boca Raton, where he served as an intern.